Is anything being prepared for when the oil runs out & food shortage?
Alternatives are being sought for oil but I suspect that oil will be around for a long time yet, but at a price that only a few will afford. Electricity, hydrogen and propulsion by other fuels will come onto the market but again not everyone will be able to afford them. Public transport will have to improve substantially. In any event ordinary people will become poor whilst the rich will continue to become wealthier. Running a house and feeding our children will make a great precentage of our population destitute and in due course we shall see widespread urban and rural unrest with greater violence against people and property. Unless successive governments deal with the inequality in society things will become dire.
i dont know the next 20 years will be testing on world resourses were at a crossroad bio fuel equals more land to grow what ever they need to make oil with the growing populations of the world will cause famine worce than ever or keep invading countrys like iraq iran saudi arabia in my opinion america will invade them all not because they hate muslims because you need oil to run an econmy so dose europe russia has it all plenty of oil plenty of food wait and see russia will be back stronger than ever twenty years from now russia will call the shots
Finally, an Intelligent Question: No, oil will not run out. It is being made by the Earth at a constant rate – and it has nothing to do with Dinosaurs. They just found 90 Billion Barrels, estimate, in North America. People in Nebraska and North Dakota just found out within the last few years, that there is Oil below them, and they are becoming Millionaires. There are Large deposits of Oil just off the shores of the US, but drilling was not allowed because people who live on the beach didn’t want to see an Oil Rigg 12 miles off shore — Hello, It would be a dot on the Horizon. Bush is pushing this thru to allow drilling. As for food, the US should be safe for many years, longer than our Life-times. As for people not being able to heat there homes, there are alternatives, Solar Panels are the best, then wind mills – going back in time to a very ingeneous device. Yes, this costs $$$ up front, but in the end, you save, and you can sell any “extra” power back to your electric company. Back
No, nothing is really being prepared JB. And mw451 is in dreamland. And this is not an American problem (as the Americans sadly think it is), it is global, and it is what Islam have been hoping for (the fools). Now days in the global village we can be affected very quickly by what goes on in another part of the world. Most politics is gears to a slower smaller world, so that political system can no longer be relied upon to fix something this big, this quick. It is like a run-away train, you don’t sit on the train planning what you will do next, unless you are foolish like mw451 and believe that mankind can fix anything. There are too many people in the world, end of story. Just look at China and India, if they manage to have a higher standard of living like the Americans, British, Australians etc; there just will not be enough oil, nor steel, nor food, nor copper, nor rubber, etc etc. The Greenpeace movement has much to answer for as well, for they push in a calm and levelheaded way, f
many people have foreseen the end of oil. M. King Hubbert first identified it in the 1950s! He correctly predicted the Peak Oil in the US at 1970. You will hear a lot about Peak Oil, not so much about when oil runs out. If there was room here I would try to explain that Peak Oil is a lot more important than when we “run out” of oil. There will always be oil in the ground (OIG) but it is and will be so hard to get out that it would cost more to retrieve it than it’s worth. Right now the problem is that for the next 30-50 years, it is a supply/demand issue. The world cannot produce enough cheap oil to satisfy the demand. What will happen in 30 years? Wars, starvation, local economies (bakeries in your town, shoe repairmen) The idea of shipping apples and kiwis from New Zealand will no longer work. Too expensive. You can bet on war. Great nations will need oil. The best way to get it is to steal it from poor countries. Oh, MW51: All the oil that ever existed or will exist has either been
